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Cloud services and tools, but with local support

Today the truck broke down, and I’m stuck in a coffee shop trying to work, but luckily I have been moving my company to the “cloud” and after dropping the truck off at my local NTB, I walked over to Coffee Times and I am happy to report that I’m up on the Internet working [...]

Computer slow? Hard disk spinning, but getting nowhere?

Does your computer have problems?

The biggest problem with your computer might just be you!

When was the last time you ran a disk cleanup, defragmented the hard drive, or emptied the cache in Internet Explorer?

Sure there are a lot of third party tools that make a lot of promises and some do deliver, but today let’s [...]

Continuing our beginner’s guide to Really Simple Syndication or RSS using Google Reader

In the last part of our RSS series, we will look at Google Reader.

Google Reader is a web based application rich in features that can be used “out of the box” for those beginners that just want a point and click solution, or customized and tweaked so that even power users will be [...]

RSS feeds for Apple Mac OSX - Apple Mail

Continuing our beginner’s guide to Really Simple Syndication or RSS on Apple OSX.

Today’s article is the second part of our series on using RSS feeds. If you have not read part one then please do so before continuing.

Today we will look at Apple Mail running on the latest version of OSX, Snow Leopard. In the next [...]

A beginner's guide to Really Simple Syndication or RSS.

A beginner’s guide to Really Simple Syndication or RSS.

Today’s article is the first in a series of short but informative articles on how to use a tool to collect information from different websites and bring them to your desktop for easy review and access.

So let’s begin this series with a simple question: what exactly is an [...]

Zoho Office as an alternative to Microsoft Office, Openoffice, or Apple iWorks

Whenever anyone talks about Office suites such as Microsoft Office, Openoffice, or Apple iWorks the first thing we think of is the Word Processor, a spreadsheet like Excel, or an email client such as Microsoft’s Outlook.

Since moving to Zoho the first tool that was used is the Word Processor. Zoho’s word processor is called Writer [...]

VLC Media Player

http://www.videolan.org/

So Windows Media Player will not play the video that your Uncle, niece, sister, or brother sent? Well I had those problems too and have gone to an “open source” project called VLC. I have so much luck with VLC that I honestly do not remember what version of Windows media player I have, [...]

Microsoft Office 2010

According to ars technica the new version may be out as soon as June [...]

The season for new laptops and computers is upon us!

With the launch of Windows 7; and with the holiday season upon us, a lot of us are looking at new computers and laptops. With that in mind MLD Services has written this blog posts to assist the buyer in their [...]

Superior Alternatives to Crappy Windows Software

From Lifehacker:

“It may be the year 2008, but a whole lot of sucktacular software still rears its ugly head on PC’s everywhere, even when better-behaved options are freely available.”

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